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by urlgrey 3001 days ago
The breach notice indicates that hashed passwords were compromised but doesn't mention whether a salt was used when computing the hashes.

Use of a salt makes all the difference, guarding against the use of rainbow tables to look up precomputed hashes of common passwords.

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> The affected information included usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords - the majority with the hashing function called bcrypt used to secure passwords.

If they're using bcrypt, then they're using salts since salts are built in to bcrypt.